Monday Morning Musing: Merry Marvels

Good morning and Merry Christmas to you! One of my favorite Christmas hymns is Before the Marvel of this Night. It is not well known, although it did appear in the ELCA Hymnal Supplement, With One Voice.

Here is a link to the Georgia Boy's Choir performance from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bi2FDZWa6c

I wish you the fullness of this day: that you would know the love of God Incarnate for you. That you would have peace in your spirit. That in those tender places and moments, you would be borne up by the promise that has come into the marvel of this day. Blessed Christmas to you.

Before the marvel of this night, adoring fold your wings and bow,

Then tear the sky apart with light, and with your news the world endow.

Proclaim the birth of Christ and peace, that fear and death and sorrow cease:

Sing peace, sing peace, sing gift of peace, sing peace, sing gift of peace!

Awake the sleeping world with song, this is the day the Lord has made.

Assemble here, celestial throng, in royal splendor come arrayed.

Give earth a glimpse of heavenly bliss, a teasing taste of what they miss:

Sing bliss, sing bliss, sing endless bliss, sing bliss, sing endless bliss!

The love that we have always known, our constant joy and endless light,

Now to the loveless world be shown, now break upon its deathly night.

Into one song compress that love that rules our universe above:

Sing love, sing love, sing God is love. Sing love, sing God is love!